[Discussion] Should votes be displayed publicly? · Issue #4967 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...

I really wanted to post this on !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net but I’m not trans myself and I didn’t want to take up their space.

Basically, the devs of Lemmy are looking to make upvotes public to everyone. Right now, I believe voter identities are known to server admins and mods.

I don’t have a strong opinion on this myself, either for or against, as I write this comment, but I’m wondering if there’s something I’m missing, frankly as a cishet dude.

But also… I’ve kinda lost trust in Nutomic making decisions about the software that won’t make things worse for trans people since his comments on the Olympics were made public. Dessalines has (so far) at least tolerated Nutomic’s transphobia despite whatever prior rhetoric. Frankly, I am suspicious that trans people don’t matter to the Lemmy dev team…to be charitable…so I’d really like to hear your thoughts.

    • @stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      39•4 months ago

      Ngl sometimes I upvote stuff out of habit, I catch myself going back to a thread and realizing I upvoted some heinous stuff on accident lol

      • TheDoctor [they/them]English
        30•4 months ago

        Yeah this happens. I treat upvotes like a “read” system. But I think there can be accounting for that in moderation decisions.

      • pooh [she/her, love/loves]English
        18•4 months ago

        I honestly do this too (upvote almost everything, but I try to avoid anything that might be problematic) but I do think people would (hopefully) take into account accidents when looking at a user’s overall history.

        That’s a good question, actually…. Are the visible upvotes per post or could you go to a persons account and view everything? I’d kind prefer the latter just to avoid jumping to conclusions if someone does accidentally upvote something bad.

      • Inui [comrade/them]English
        10•4 months ago

        This happens to me constantly on mobile because every app is really sensitive about left/right swiping. I could just turn gestures off but I’ll probably never vote on anything if I have to hold tap on something to open the menu and click the up arrow. So realistically I’m gonna catch some likes and bookmarks on some weird stuff.

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]English
      28•4 months ago

      Since the for comments are downthumbed and the against comments are upthumbed on the GitHub issue, anyone who feels this way should vote accordingly there (where your votes are also public).